Major Trends in Ratification of the Aarhus Convention in the CEE Countries

The Project “Network of Independent Experts for Early Implementation and Compliance Monitoring of the Aarhus Convention” funded by the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) was launched in September 1999. In the framework of the project an independent network of NGO and other experts was set up in the 15 CEE countries. This assessment is based on the first results of the project.(Original source: http://www.roheline.ee/eng/ratification.doc)